The House of the Seven Gables /

The House of the Seven Gables / / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on posterity “an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate.” Many critics have faulted the novel for it...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
VerfasserIn:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
MitwirkendeR:
Donoghue, Denis,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:The John Harvard Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • Note on the Text
  • Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life
  • THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
  • Preface
  • I. The Old Pyncheon Family
  • II. The Little Shop-Window
  • III. The First Customer
  • IV. A Day Behind the Counter
  • V. May and November
  • VI. Maule’s Well
  • VII. The Guest
  • VIII. The Pyncheon of To-Day
  • IX. Clifford and Phoebe
  • X. The Pyncheon-Garden
  • XI. The Arched Window
  • XII. The Daguerreotypist
  • XIII. Alice Pyncheon
  • XIV. Phoebe’s Good Bye
  • XV. The Scowl and Smile
  • XVI. Clifford’s Chamber
  • XVII. The Flight of Two Owls
  • XVIII. Governor Pyncheon
  • XIX. Alice’s Posies
  • XX. The Flower of Eden
  • XXI. The Departure
  • Selected Bibliography

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